Everywhere we look we are bombarded
with 3D. It’s in movies, in-home
entertainment, digital camcorders, gaming
systems, laptops, and even in our
labs. What is it about 3D that is so fascinating
and what are some of the technology
drivers that are determining
its future?

Disaster relief workers, border patrol
officers, wildfire fighters, and many
others need up-to-date information
about what they will see when they enter
an area, not just sketchy topographic
maps that may be years out of date. For
them, things change in a hurry, and
high-resolution details may be critical to
their mission success.

The NSC1101 from New Imaging Technologies
(NIT) Corp. (Verrières le Buisson, France)
is a high-dynamic-range read out circuit (ROIC)
designed to interface with photodiode arrays.
The NSC1101 has a VGA format (640×512 pixels),
and the ROIC offers a pitch of 15μm. Because
of its Native Wide Dynamic Range™ of
more than 120 dB, the sensor does not require any setting or exposure
time control.

New Ridge Technologies (Owings Mills,
MD) has announced the expansion of its
NRT-2500 product line to include the
TruePhase IPLM Inline Polarimeter from
OFS (Norcross, GA). The NRT-2500, a polarization
control platform, offers scrambling,
randomizing, spinning, setting, and tracking polarization applications.

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